Sentence examples for swift river from inspiring English sources

But oil moving downstream in a swift river?

The problem: a dry bed running from high on Mount Babuyan to the ocean turns into a swift river during monsoon.

Leaving her truck and friend behind, Sarah paddles off on a swift river, a sometimes perilous-looking voyage that signals her resolve and athleticism (and recklessness: she isn't wearing a helmet), and shifts the movie into a sustained pastoral register.

By Robert Hass The New Yorker, February 23 , 1998P. 144 A tawny and lead-gray current of swift river View Article By Rivka Galchen By Jia Tolentino By Zoë Heller By Malcolm Gladwell.

The springs were indeed lovely and even more dramatic than the head of the Metolius as they gushed out of a chain of grottoes and sprayed artfully into the dark, swift river over mossy rocks.

But the firm said on its website that flooding, and swift river currents, meant it was still unsafe to send crews out in boats or to walk the banks in search of oil.

The hills are interspersed with short, swift rivers, including the Ulhas and the Vaitarna.

What can be greater than a straight line that crosses deserts, forests, swift rivers, unruly cities and ungovernable provinces?

Deep gorges and swift rivers give way to dry steppes, and the green of alpine meadows alternates with the darker hues of forested valleys.

The Arkansas spring really does bring white water — mysterious waterfalls hidden away at the ends of impossibly mossy trails, swift rivers thick with monster trout, rapids for paddling.

Nearly all the country's rivers flow westward or southward into either the Yellow Sea or the East China Sea; only a few short, swift rivers drain eastward from the T'aebaek Mountains.